Here I am 16 weeks pregnant and blissfully unaware of what is happening inside of me! Everyone asks me if I suspected multiples, and the answer is NO! We did joke about it a time or two because I felt that I was showing early (I was 7 weeks when I started to get a belly) but of course, with a second pregnancy that is normal!
I was less nauseated this time than when I was pregnant with Rylen (and funny enough, extreme nausea is a sign of multiples). But the exhaustion was awful. Like, I have never felt that physically and mentally drained in my whole life. I kept thinking I was being a big baby about things, and blaming the tiredness on the fact that I have a very active and rambunctious 2 year old to look after. I suppose that should maybe have been a clue that something was different, but I honestly did not ever suspect that there was more than one baby in there! We don't have a family history of multiples and we did not use fertility drugs (something everyone wants to know!).
In fact, at one of my appointments, my wonderful midwife Kari even said "I think there's only one in there, you aren't measuring any bigger than usual". Apparently my boys were hiding out somewhere. Either that or I have an unusually roomy uterus.
The day we took this picture I was actually feeling really good. My energy level had returned a bit and I was excited for the rest of the pregnancy, hoping that I was done with all the annoying early pregnancy discomforts. We were busy discussing names (focusing on girl names of course) and making plans for our future with two children. I told Mark that I didn't think I'd be done at two kids, but he thought that maybe it was a good idea (perhaps my extreme exhaustion had more of an effect on him? He really was basically single parenting while I napped 24/7).
Wow, how different our life was just a few weeks ago...
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